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Just thought i'd let you know Adnan Amar has pulled out of his English welterweight title defence against James Flinn on Saturday night, as i've wrote below.

http://midlandsboxing.blogspot.com/2011 ... title.html

Not spamming or advertising my one-man site, by the way, but thought this was a story of interest.

Amar pulls out of a fight for the 3rd or 4th consecutive time, dude if you can't make 147 don't take fights there. if you don't really want to box all that much, whicvh is distinctly the impression i get, don't take fights at all, maybe?

glad they found a half-decent replacement, anyway. thanks for the update Tom

This guy must have the most pull-outs of any boxer.

I'm just glad that they found a replacement with such a similar name.

Gutted, was really hoping that Flinn could bring the English title back to Coventry. Is Amar finally going to be stripped of his title?

Not sure if he will as it was only voluntary defence. But it's a shame that it's off; i was looking forward to see how James was going to do against a back-footed pot-shotter.

Well hopefully Flinn can get himsief into contention for it again

It a joke how he still has his title He has only defended it once since 2008 the man is a joke an need stripping he is bad for boxing

xXHAMMERXx wrote:It a joke how he still has his title He has only defended it once since 2008 the man is a joke an need stripping he is bad for boxing

Completely agree, the English title needs to be available for fighters to contest. A stepping stone for some and sometimes the pinnacle for others.

Has anyone else been so inactive with that level of title?

For the record, Adnan has told me a chest infection has forced him to pull out of the contest. The winner of Flinn-Anwar will be the new English champion.

Travelling up from nottingham (as long as a friend of mine gets confirmed as being on the undercard tomorrow)
Bit of a bitch that a nottingham fighter has now pulled out , im wondering if its the reason the lad i know has been offered a fight to appease any travelling from notts who have already bought tickets ???????

Podmore_Birmingham wrote:For the record, Adnan has told me a chest infection has forced him to pull out of the contest. The winner of Flinn-Anwar will be the new English champion.

Excellent news, cheers for the updates. Good news for Flinn. How often do you update your local blog by the way?

damianhucker1 wrote:

Travelling up from nottingham (as long as a friend of mine gets confirmed as being on the undercard tomorrow)
Bit of a bitch that a nottingham fighter has now pulled out , im wondering if its the reason the lad i know has been offered a fight to appease any travelling from notts who have already bought tickets ???????

Are you talking about Leigh Wood, by any chance?

Podmore_Birmingham wrote:

damianhucker1 wrote:

Travelling up from nottingham (as long as a friend of mine gets confirmed as being on the undercard tomorrow)
Bit of a bitch that a nottingham fighter has now pulled out , im wondering if its the reason the lad i know has been offered a fight to appease any travelling from notts who have already bought tickets ???????

Are you talking about Leigh Wood, by any chance?

yes

freddydoesdallas wrote:

Podmore_Birmingham wrote:For the record, Adnan has told me a chest infection has forced him to pull out of the contest. The winner of Flinn-Anwar will be the new English champion.

Excellent news, cheers for the updates. Good news for Flinn. How often do you update your local blog by the way?

I do a piece [at least] per day. And though only a niche site, I get around 400 individual hits per day.

Podmore_Birmingham wrote:

freddydoesdallas wrote:

Podmore_Birmingham wrote:For the record, Adnan has told me a chest infection has forced him to pull out of the contest. The winner of Flinn-Anwar will be the new English champion.

Excellent news, cheers for the updates. Good news for Flinn. How often do you update your local blog by the way?

I do a piece [at least] per day. And though only a niche site, I get around 400 individual hits per day.

I'll take the link and start reading

Thanks. Got a lot lined up over the coming weeks, including pieces with former British champions Tony Laing and Del Bryan.

Podmore_Birmingham wrote:Thanks. Got a lot lined up over the coming weeks, including pieces with former British champions Tony Laing and Del Bryan.

bryans nephew fights for me , trained by tony laing

Never actually seen either fighter in the ring but would be interested to read about them .

Great blog that Tom, used to enjoy reading some of your West Mids based stuff a while back, cant think what on.

Don't live in the West Mids anymore so that blog will be a good little way of keeping up to date with the Midlands scene.

freddydoesdallas wrote:

xXHAMMERXx wrote:It a joke how he still has his title He has only defended it once since 2008 the man is a joke an need stripping he is bad for boxing

Completely agree, the English title needs to be available for fighters to contest. A stepping stone for some and sometimes the pinnacle for others.

Has anyone else been so inactive with that level of title?

Although it's a few levels up, what about Guillermo Jones (WBA Cruiserweight) what is it now? 2 defences of a world title in 3 years or something crazy

saturday_kid wrote:Great blog that Tom, used to enjoy reading some of your West Mids based stuff a while back, cant think what on.

Don't live in the West Mids anymore so that blog will be a good little way of keeping up to date with the Midlands scene.

Thanks, chief. That would have been when i wrote for BritishBoxing.net, which vanished without a trace years back. But i've only just moved back to the Midlands after three years at uni in West Yorkshire. Pre-uni, i was in Birmingham all my life but now live in Nottingham. Trying to get a balance of both West and East Midlands stuff to appease all.

Yeah that was it fella, shame what happened there.

I remember the Midlands content dipped for quantity and quality when you went to uni.

Good luck with it anyway mate, I'll certainly be having a look regurlarly.

Adil Anwar from Leeds is Adnan's replacement.

For those Interested Leigh wood is now definately added to the show .

damianhucker1 wrote:For those Interested Leigh wood is now definately added to the show .

He's a decent little prospect and his debut, against a winless but hard-fighting Welshman, will have done him the power of good. Once he'd settled, his punches flowed very fluidly.